DEBATE CLUB #3: Our Habitat & Environment : How does it affect our quality of life?

QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE

What aspects of our community and environment make for meaningful well-lived lives?

What are some of the forces that poison habitat and destroy lives of those who live there?

How can we as individuals cultivate joyous lives and communities by taking care of the world around us?

What are some of the things that you love about the place you live, and cannot stand?

What are some of the things that you loved from the places or places you grew up in, and other things you couldn't stomach?

What are some qualities that you find important in the society you live in? Do you choose where to live based on these values?

How does environment affect how people grow up and become individuals? Are these environmental factors more important than genetic ones?

How have environmental factors become more important in recent years? Have these ecological factors always been important and there is simply more attention paid to them now?

What are some things that you do to make your community more welcoming, or to take care of the place where you live?

How is your home a part of your community? How is it different?

What are some different kinds of pollution we are confronted with today?

How can we detoxify our environments?

What are some ways we could change the we live and dwell to create habitats that would more closely resemble your ideals?

How might your ideals for habitat be in conflict with those of others?

Are there ways to reconcile these different visions for habitat?

What do you think of the idea of 'rewilding'?